Those people mostly work in teams. Mostly a group of Chinese or Indian people. What they are doing is just spreading the link between each other. Instead of 1 person doing 1000, 10 persons are doing 100...

Yes they are manually submitted, maybe with some it isn't like this, but with the poor Indians for example, a daily €0,23 is normal.. for 1 FULL DAY of working...

I've learned that in the lessons Geography (that dated from 2005 so could've changed a bit). Now, just pay all those people 4 times that amount if they can work on PC's (which they probably do like) and it's all done, you run away with the money.

This isn't with Indians etc only, also with Chinese people.. the reason behind this is probably because there are so many people living in those countries...

I don't really think they submit manually to 1000 dirs for $16 as they advertise, at best they'd submit to a fraction of that and send you a fake report, or use some software to automate the submissions, which actually very simple to code, then they'd just need to enter the catchas..
Many in fact do nothing and just take the money and pretend to do some submissions.

But besides that consider that $1-2 per hour is a pretty good wage for most of the world's population. So do the math

Yes they are manually submitted, maybe with some it isn't like this, but with the poor Indians for example, a daily €0,23 is normal.. for 1 FULL DAY of working...

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Apologies for going off topic here but I dont agree withe terminology being used here. Some places are expensive to live and some are cheaper. 0.23 Euros turns into around 14-16 INR . I am not sure how many of the webmasters are goinna make a living on that daily earning. It wont cover the internet bills either. So I will appreciate some research before having an opinion on such things. peace

Coming back to the topic, Yes people submit them manually. Being in India and knowing a few people who do it, I can give u an idea about its done(atleast by the people whom I know). A friend of mine from New Delhi(capital of India) does directory submissions, social bookmarking, SEO sort of jobs and is well renowned at DP(lets leave his identity apart). He has setup an office with around 10 emplyees. He pay them around 2500 INR to 4000 INR per month depending on the job they do. They work 12 noon to 5PM. So, at maximum his expense is 40000 INR thats around $1000. So if he gets 20 orders at $100 per job, he is already making a profit of $1000 per month.

Now, 2500-4000 INR is not that big a amount but then, these guys who work 5 hours a day from him are mainly students who utilise their free time to earn some bucks.

That's about one guy whom i know, there must be many more people doing it the different way. But still 1 Euro a day for spending your whole day on computer? That dont make sense.

I've seen many services out there...manual submissions to thousands of directories. What are you using to "manually" submit to the thousands of directories?

Some submitters use auto fill script. It automatically fills in all the required information. And submitter fills the catchpa thing. I don't know if directory owners like this, but it is hard to cach those who use auto fill script.

But like said in above posts. Some submitters actually do it manually.